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SCRIPTUHE: Genesis 25:27-34 ; 27-29;
32:1-33:16 ; 35:1-15; 37:29-36; 46:1. 29-34;
47: 1-10.
DEVOTIONAL, READING: Psalm 91.
A GROCER In Minneapolis re
ceived a letter from a former
customer who had left the city
owing a large grocery bill. “I
have been converted in a revival
here,” the letter said, “and I want
to make every
thing right in my
life that has been
wrong.” Enclosed
there was a certi
fied check for the
old bill. The gro
cer wired back:
“W h o was the
evangelist who
converted you? We
need him in Minne
apolis.”
Conversion is God’s operation on
the heart. No one can actually see
the heart, but if the operation is
successful, the symptoms of dis
ease will disappear and the symp
toms of health can be seen by any
one. The patient is a new man.
• • •
Jacob Blqck
P ERHAPS the most notable case
of conversion In the Bible,
aside from tlvs Apostle Paul, is
the man named Jacob. His life is a
study in black and white; up to a
certain point hardly anything good
could be said of him, but after that
point he can hardly be accused of
anything bad.
All his younger days he was
principally noted for giving
trouble to other people and
“doing them out of” something
he wanted for himself. First he
tricked his older brother into
selling him ^he family birth
right, for the ridiculous price
of a bowl of soup (pottage).
You would not think any one
would sell his birthright; but Jacob
caught Esau when he was dog-
hungry . . i Then we see him out
smarting his brother again by
birthright; Jacob was by that time
a shameless liar and thief. It be
came so hot for him at home that
he had to leave town. v ^ ..
We have a glimpse of him on
his journey, dreaming about a
ladder to heaven. Evidently
his conscience did not trouble
him. Indeed, he proceeds to
bargain even with God; If God
will prosper him, he says, he
will see that God gets ten per
cent. God did indeed prosper
him; but he grew no better for
It.
The rest of his life, for the next
twenty years, is one piece of trick
ery after another, he and his uncle
Laban taking turns trying to out
smart each other, with Jacob uj-
usually coming out ahead.
• • •
Jacob White
T HINGS came to a climax on the
night when Jacob, fearing death
st Esau’s hands, arranged his
family to go ahead of him, keep
ing himself in the safest place in
the rear . . . and there at last he
came face to face with God.
The story of his all-night strug
gle at the brook Jabbok is a
strange one; but one thing is cer
tain. After that night even his
name was changed, for the man
himself was a new man.
He is patient in trouble, no
longer resentful. He is not only
a good man himself, he does
his best to help others. He con
ducts what can only be called
a family revival; he persuades
one and all to give up the idols
they had been worshipping and
turn to the one true God. He
offers sacrifices, like his fath
ers before him.
He goes down into Egypt at lasx,
a humble man, no longer the con
ceited young crook he had been
when he went to Padan-Aram. He
depends now on God and not on
himself.
• * •
The God of Jacob
A FAMILIAR Psalm carries this
refrain: “The God of Jacob is
our refuge.” Why the God of Jacob,
not Abraham nor Isaac? Well, if it
were only the God of Abraham,
most of us might as well give up.
For Abraham was a great genius,
a man such as appears scarcely
once in a century. Or if he were
the God of Isaac only, we would
be led to think of him as caring
especially for the weak-minded,
the lame and the lazy. But Jacob-
just a plain man full of meanness?
Yes; the same God who changed
him can change the meanest of us.
The real test of religion is not
what support it can give to noble
souls, or what comfort it gives to
the weak. The real test of religion
is: Can God turn black into white?
Can God take an ordinary, con
ceited, slippery customer and
make a good man of him? The
God of Jacob can do this; and he
is the God most of us need.
(Copyright by the International Coun
cil of Reugious Education on behalf of
40 Protestant denomina iiooa.
by WNU Features.)
ASK ME ? A quiz with answers offering |
ANOTHER.
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5 Name the author of "Trea*
The Questions
1. What is a kibitzer?
2. Of what bodies does the Con
gress of the United States con
sist?
3. Who is responsible for the fol
lowing expression: “1 would rath
er be right than president"?
4. Give the plural of chateau.
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By Nutrition Expert
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This pept may in turn join the
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Mealworms are only about an
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This gives the advantage pf large
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Mealworms are close relatives
of weevils which infest flour at
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ure Island.
« The Answers
1. An onlooker at a card
who advises the players.
2. The Senate and the House of
Representatives.
3. Henry Clay.
4. Chateaux.
5. Robert L. Stevenson.
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KATHLEEN NORRIS
Generation Has Dangers
"W
HAT ABOUT
my teen-age
daughters?” women from
Maine to Monterey have been asking
me, during the last puzzling years.
“What about dates, and night clubs,
and going steady?”
“Yes, what’s happened to the
kids?” demands India Roberts of
Denver, CoL “Are the 14-year-olds
in your town talking beaux' and
dates and who is going with whom?
My husband and I are nearly fran
tic,” the letter goes on. “Our Phyl
lis is 13, Frances two years older.
They are lovely girls, good students,
helpful at home, gay, and they are
all our world. But ever since school
started last fall we have been flood
ed with girl-boy talk; long-legged
young creatures infest our down
stairs playroom; and every week
end presents a problem.
“Fran has ‘gone steady* with a
boy for months; little Phil is rapidly
following suit They only want to
do ‘what the other girls mothers
let them do,' but isn’t that a lot
mdre than girls so young ought to
be allowed to do? Movies, in parties
of four or six; school dances; house
parties. And they all pair off as na
turally as if they had been mar
ried for years.
Dangers and Advantages
“Now isn't this very unhealthy?
Doesn’t it stimulate desires and
emotions that belong to much later
years? Doesn't it take the bloom
.. with girl-boy Udh *
off our girls? You've been asked
this question thousands of times;
what is your solution?”
Well, India, in the first place, this
situation,isn’t all wrong. Like every
other custom of every other genera
tion, it has its dangers, and its ad
vantages. There are good things
in this sudden leap from childhood
into understanding—understanding
on this question of sex, if back of
the girl and the boy there is a sane,
affectionate family as a rock of se
curity to which they may anchor
their dancing craft.
Girls 100 years ago were simper
ing, ignorant, romantic misses, so
protected, so sheltered, so kept in
the dark that iharriage to them was
often a serious disillusionment and
a shock. Managing mammas in
veigled the groom jnto proposing,
and pompous papas arranged the
dowry. Without that dowry European
girls could not hope for xnarriago
at alL
We who were school girls 50 yearf-
ago didn’t ha vs the managing mam
ma*. and dots and doweries were
never ' American institutions. But
we did have all the awkwardness*
shyness, ignorance that made social
events agonies for youngsters of
both sexes. And believe me, we
took just as poignant and obsessive
an interest in the subject at sex as
do girls of today; only we knew
nothing about it, and were not al
lowed to question. For us it was all
suspicion, tittering, surmise and
mystery. Dances were miserable
uncertainties until one’s caird was
full. I recommend Rosamund Leh
man’s delightful novel “Invitation
To The Waltz” as a perfect picture
of what a dance meant then to a
shy. unpopular girl.
“Going Steady”
Now, strangely enough, today’s
teen-agers have accomplished what
chaperons and mothers and patron
esses have vainly tried to achieve
for whole generations. “Going
steady” merely meahs, in the life
of a protected, dignified small girl,
that she has a sure partner txfc
movie companionship, at school
dances, on all-day parties. She likes
him with all the honesty she shows
her girl friendships; they save each
other endless uncertainties, endless
chances to establish an inferiority
complex, an unpopularity complex*
for all the years of their lives.
Victorian girls never talked to
men at all, except when in the
presence of their elders. Giyls o*
my generation confined themselves
to endless friendships with their
own sex, but became muscle booed,
affected and nervous when meat
came around. Today’s custom does
away with both these unnatural
conditions.
But like all other new things ws
have to see in it a challenge to a
new moral. /
Like the rules we make for our
children concerning radio, movies*
motors, planes, we have met this
juvenile development with an ia
crease of dignity, self-control, duty.
Girls know more than they did,
know everything; there is much less
behind-door whispering and giggling
and guessing than there used to be.
Even the most conservative school*
now treat the subject qf sex openly
and honestly. ?
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